Connecticut Gets It

The people of Connecticut get it, Justin Kloczko, staff reporter for the Middletown Press doesn’t. His article reports that in Connecticut, the number of people requesting gun permits is up 50%. This trend is similar across the nation. Law abiding citizens are arming themselves more than in the past. Smith and Wesson, Ruger, Glock, Kal-Tec, and all the other firearm manufacturers are making record sales. Ammunition manufactures cannot keep up with demand.

Kloczko is typical of liberal reporters. This short news piece is laced with anti-gun opinion, of both the reporter and government officials.

He quotes Department of Public Safety Office Supervisor Diane Morrel saying, “Gun sales and permitting has hiked up since Obama took office. These people are worrying needlessly”. Needlessly? Obama has the most anti-gun voting record in the Senate, and his administration has said it will reinstate the assault-weapons ban that expired in 2004 and will look into putting stricter regulations on gun ownership. How is believing that the President and liberal congress doing what they have repeatedly said they would try to do worrying needlessly?

Even though it has been well documented, Kloczko is amazed at what the data in Connecticut tells him. His article concludes, “Despite the increases in pistol permits, the state is significantly safer than it was 25 years ago. According to Connecticut’s Uniform Crime Report, which indexes murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft in the state, offenses have been on a downward spiral since 1985, dropping around 30 percent in recent years.” Crime did not drop despite the increase pistol ownership; it dropped because the increase pistol ownership is a significant contributing factor to decreased crime.


In the book More Guns Less Crime, John Lott documents the fact that where more regular people arm themselves and take responsibility for their own security the less overall crime exists for those people.

The people of this country, even the people of the liberal northeast, get it. They know that as the unemployment increases, crime generally increases, and that taking the responsibility to defend yourself is demonstrably more effective than depending on the government. They also know that a handgun is the single most effective self protection tool available. They also believe Obama and company when they say that they want to make it harder for law abiding citizens to arm themselves. Since the people of Connecticut get it there is an increase in firearm purchases. Why doesn’t the liberal press get it?